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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 601–608.
Published: 01 December 2023
... noire, masques blancs In his infamous chapter on “The Black Man and Language” in Black Skin, White Masks , Fanon cites Léon-Gontran Damas’s incomparable poem “Hoquet” to illustrate the material and psychic effects of the imposition of the French language onto its colonies. Throughout this chapter...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Thomas Dodman Maria C. Scott , Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction. Readings in French Realism ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020 ). 284 pp. ISBN: 9781474463034. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the essay explores the sociological and pedagogical implications of what seems, in the film, the incompatibility of these distinct appropriations of the text, as it pertains to the students in the documentary and to US-based French programs built on the literary curricula developed by pedagogues...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (3): 486–504.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with agonistic discursive practices usually reserved for men, these women destabilized this masculine dispute. In so doing, they reclaimed some room in this quarrel (and others like it) for women. Works Cited Bloch Jean . “ Discourses of Female Education in the Writings of Eighteenth-Century French...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., journalist-writers, like Olivier and Jean Rolin or François Bon, arguably dominate today’s French literary field and engage in experiments that echo those of André Gide. James mostly leaves behind her history as an Oulipo scholar, but one wonders if Oulipo might have made an appearance here. The book’s...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 313–314.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... In his new study of class disturbance and leveling in modern and contemporary French narrative, Edward J. Hughes draws on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière to problematize that conceptual framework and develop a variegated account of how a commitment to equality can function in a world defined...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 336–358.
Published: 01 September 2021
...John Westbrook Abstract Ferguson’s Accounting for Taste reveals a gap in our understanding: How did French culinary discourse move beyond the bourgeois sphere in which it emerged in the nineteenth century? Picking up on her comparison of the Proustian synthesis of regional and national culinary...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marisa Galvez [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 medieval literature inheritance mediality Old Occitan troubadours I started learning French as my first secondary language, having never learned...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 464–470.
Published: 01 December 2023
... related to the colonial system. Given its intrinsic relationship with the history of colonialism and its aftermath, French studies, and the often-Eurocentric forms of literatures upon which it used to rely, has been increasingly at the center of debates about reforming teaching practices. It seemed...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Terrence Cullen [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 senses sound book history medieval French After two years of delays due to COVID-19—one of whose telltale signs is the loss or distortion of one sense...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 609–616.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Jennifer Eun-Jung Row What is uniquely interesting about the policed borders of the French canon—ranging from the organized lists of the baccalauréat to the hallowed halls of the Académie Française to the recalcitrance toward linguistic change—is that these public debates, opinions...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Laurence Denié-Higney; Vera Klekovkina To conclude, pivoting toward global French studies requires work, dedication, and imagination because it means to renovate yet again why , what , and how we teach in French programs. Having previously discussed the role of machine translation...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 560–566.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... It was through fiction that I came to better understand politics and the relationship of international factors to the orientation of domestic societal trends. Even though my only exposure to French as a child was through short language-learning sessions that Radio Monte-Carlo Moyen Orient used to broadcast, I...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 575–582.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Arnaud Perret [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Francophonie decenter boundaries intersectional rhizomatic In addition to their use in academic and cultural contexts, the categories of French...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Nabil Boudraa [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Maghreb interdisciplinarity linguistic diversity postcoloniality The field of French and Francophone studies in US academia has evolved a lot...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 617–624.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the moment where we are in French and Francophone studies. The academic landscape in the humanities and world languages has been dramatically transformed in recent years by a series of social, political, and cultural crises. And yet we are collectively failing to see the opportunities that have materialized...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 107–110.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Alison Baird Lovell Virginia Krause . Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisiveté in the French Renaissance . Newark : University of Delaware Press , 2003 . Pp. 230 . Copyright © 2005 The Trustees of Columbia University 2005 Book Reviews Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 477–480.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Madeleine Dobie French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race . Edited by Tyler Stovall and Georges Van Den Abbeele . Lexington Books , 2003 . Pp. 383 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS 477 French...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (1-2): 103–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Anna-Louise Milne Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Anna-Louise Milne GIDE'S POLYMORPHOUS PERVERSITY, OR FRENCH MODERNISM'S ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT For a long time, it would seem, Gide's name, when considered from the perspective of America, provoked a sort of jolt...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 363–380.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Allison Stedman Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Allison Stedman PROLEPTIC SUBVERSION: LONGING FOR THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE LATE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY FRENCH FAIRY TALE I n his important analysis of the first French fairy tale vogue, Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender...
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